February 26, 2004
Who owns what in your lab?
“Who Owns What in the Lab?” is the topic for the next presentation in the “Things Your Mother Never Taught You” series sponsored by the School of Medicine’s Office of Industry Relations. The program, free and open to everyone, is from noon to 1 p.m., Wednesday, March 10, in Turner Auditorium, room D-209 of the Health Sciences Center.
Dr. Susan Wray, director of industry relations, organized the session to address common questions, such as:
—Who controls use and distribution of the data, biological materials and copyrightable works in a lab?
—What should happen to data, software, cell lines, mouse lines, materials and lab notebooks when a faculty member, employee or student leaves?
—How can the rights of contributors to use software or digital works they create in a lab be preserved?
In addition to answering questions like these, the session will also explain the UW’s new Intellectual Property Policy, which includes new procedures for royalty distribution to inventors and authors or developers.
Wray will lead the session, joined by three other speakers: Dr. Charles Williams, director of digital ventures for the UW Technology Transfer office; Dr. Clark Shores, from the Attorney General’s Office at the UW; and Dr. Paula Szoka, director of invention licensing at the Technology Transfer office.
The next session in the series will be on Wednesday, April 14. For more information, contact Vee White at 543-8319 or by e-mail at veewhite@u.washington.edu.
